Vivo has apparently done what Samsung could not and Apple was only planning to. The famous in-screen fingerprint scanner which has so far eluded all devices till date, has been brought forth and showcased on a Vivo smartphone.

The Qualcomm fingerprint scanner which was put into effect at the show on a Vivo Xplay 6 prototype was announced earlier at the same show. It detects ultrasonic fingerprint signals through OLED displays up to 1200um and is more secure than any other fingerprint scanners that are available on smartphones at the moment. Check out the GIF image which we can now look at, thanks to Engadget.

The fingerprint scanner works underwater and doesn't care much even when your phone or your fingers are dirty. There are two points to be noted though. Engadget reports that the actual fingerprint recognition is much slower than what we are used to and also that the display was only able to detect the fingerprint from one particular place on the display. In theory however, the whole display should be able to detect your fingerprints flawlessly. Then again, this is just a prototype that we are looking at and things will definitely improve once the ultrasonic technology and the smartphone is ready for commercial release.

Not unlike
the fabled Galaxy X and its foldable display, the in-screen fingerprint scanner
never really arrived on any Samsung device, in spite of there being no shortage
of rumors that hinted Samsung will incorporate it in the Galaxy S8 or the Note
8. As it turns out, even the upcoming Galaxy S9 will most likely go with a
traditional fingerprint scanner at the back, albeit in a better place! However,
the focus of this news is the fact that it's a Chinese company named Vivo that
has beaten the mighty Korean giant and the all-powerful Apple in getting
Synaptics' inside-the-display fingerprint scanner inside one of its
smartphones.

Vivo is no
joke though, because the company is one of the leading smartphone companies in
its home country and in India. Unfortunately, this also means that the western
world might not see this smartphone ever make its way onto the US shores. In
the words of the source, which is Patrick
Moorhead aka @PatrickMoorhead on
Twitter,

"Here are some pics @anshelsag and I took of
the Vivo smartphone with the Synaptics in-display fingerprint reader. The CMOS
image sensor is .7mm thick and reads the fingerprint right through the OLED
display. The experience was faster than I expected."